Word: common
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...more for what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation, and needs no comment...
...manly men." The reason he assigns is deceptive. If he means that we look upon no popular men as manly he makes a groundless and false assertion ; if he means that we hold that a number of popular men are not manly, he is right. We hold to the common view that those popular men who, when occasion calls, express themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity is due to a careful avoidance of expressing disapprobation at such talk and acts are not manly. The independent man would be a fool if he felt...
...learn from the Index that the most common names this year in college are as follows (the number of insertions being given...
...think the cause of such a man's unpopularity is his disregard of the fact that there is a mean between servility and self-assertion. It is a tendency common in young men to take extremes. They seem to feel, in spite of the auream mediocritatem of Horace (who, by the by, knew more about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would...
...title and with the translator's name in place of the author's. The student does not know this new title or the name of the translator. It is almost certain that his search will be in vain. The subject catalogue should be scheduled minutely enough to enable common people to use it, or it should be abandoned. Why spend so much money to result in so great vexation of spirit...